University of Maine Career Center Annual Report 2017-2018

The Career Center engages and educates students in their career development process. Our programming reflects our mission and the Career Center staff is honored to be able to assist students with their career readiness every day. A focus for this year was technology improvement and implementation. Our partnership with the University of Maine at Machias continues to evolve and their students are now able to participate in our presentations that are hosted in the Career Center Library. Their students are included in our online job listing database, CareerLink and are invited to participate in all of our programs and utilize our online resources. Several of our staff members have visited the UMM campus and met with students and staff. Internships are a continual point of interest for students, parents and faculty so we spent time this year identifying internship programs that are in existence, meeting with faculty who coordinate these programs and working towards a common set of internship guidelines. Employer relations continues to expand as we hosted the two largest career events in the state; the Engineering Job Fair and the Career Fair. In order to stay current in our field, the Career Center staff participated in trainings that resulted in national certifications in the Career Development field enhancing our credentials

University of Maine Career Center Annual Report 2019-2020

As the academic year 2019-2020 concludes, we find ourselves in a place for reflection as the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we function. We went from the lowest unemployment rate in many years to the highest unemployment rate in a matter of weeks. This year has been a lesson in agility and resilience. The Career Center staff successfully navigated the transition in delivering remote services in a matter of days, we did not have any down time during this transition period and continued to meet with students. We were able to navigate this transition due to our continual professional development, training and ability to embrace change. It is easy to focus on the pandemic however, that should not overshadow the majority of the year

Engaged Black Bear Digital Badging Initiative

To help meet the vision of student-­‐centered, learning pathways the University of Maine Provost sought to create a digital badging system as a means of identifying and validating the rich array of people\u27s skills, knowledge, accomplishments, and competencies. This program ended in Spring 2020. See attached supplemental document

First Year Student Success Initiative: Academic Support Services Working Group Report

Report from the Academic Support Services Working Group in response to the charge to: “Develop a set of recommendations about ways that student academic support services can better serve first-year students.” The report includes five recommendations for integrated academic supports